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Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday launched AP Seva Portal 2.0, an improved version of the Citizen Service Portal, to provide better services to the people. Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister stated that all the officials right from village/ward secretariats to higher authorities will be using AP Seva […]
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Hyderabad: The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has decided to release the online quota of darshan tickets for February. The Rs 300 Special Entry Darshan (SED) tickets will be released at 9 am on Friday, while the Slotted Sarva Darshan (SSD) tokens for the common pilgrims will be released at the same time on Saturday. TTD […]
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Guntur: Tension prevailed at Jinnah Tower here in Andhra Pradesh as some members of a right-wing group tried to hoist the National Flag at the landmark named after Pakistan’s founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Police detained activists of Hindu Vahini when they attempted to hoist the national flag at Jinnah Tower on the occasion of […]
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Visakhapatnam: Visakhapatnam, the biggest city in Andhra Pradesh and proposed to become the executive capital of the state, will be part of the smallest district under the same name, thanks to reconstitution of the districts. After the reconstitution of the 13 districts comprising 25 Lok Sabha and 175 Assembly constituencies, 51 Revenue divisions and 670 […]
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Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) on Tuesday announced that it will be offering a 20 per cent discount on ticket fares of various air-conditioned buses – Garuda, Night Rider, Indra, Amaravati, and Vennela sleeper services to Hyderabad from Vijayawada. According to APSRTC regional manager M Yesu Danam, the discount will be […]
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YSR's EBC (Economically Backward Classes) Nestham scheme aims at improving their livelihood and financial empowerment to benefit even the poorest female citizens from the EBC category.
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The new names of the new 13 districts are as follows, Manyam, Alluri Sitharama Raju, Anakapalli, Kakinada, Kona Seema, Eluru, NTR District, Bapatla, Palnadu, Nandyal, Sri Satyasai, Annamayya and Sri Balaji district.
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Amaravati: The PRC Sadhana Samiti, representing Andhra Pradesh state government employees, teachers and pensioners, has decided not to go for talks till the PRC Government Orders were withdrawn. The Samiti leaders who met on Tuesday in the wake of the invitation from the Principal Secretary-General Administration Department for talks on the issue, wrote a letter […]
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Amaravati: The stand-off between Andhra Pradesh government and employees over pay revision continued on Tuesday as the latter turned down another invitation for talks and intensified their protest. The employees’ unions rejected the fresh offer of talks by a five-member committee constituted by the government to hold talks to resolve the contentious issue. A day […]
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Kurnool: Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs V Muraleedharan on Monday alleged that the Andhra Pradesh government has been protecting anti-nationalists and arresting those protecting the law of land. He further alleged that Andhra Pradesh has been suffering from the misrule and corruption of the government in power but now the […]
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Amaravati: Coronavirus disease is spreading at fast pace in Andhra Pradesh with 14,502 persons testing positive out of 40,266 samples collected in the past 24 hours. On Sunday, two persons in West Godavari district, and one each in Visakhapatnam, Guntur, Kurnool, Nellore and Srikakulam districts died of Covid. There were at present 93,305 active cases […]
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Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh state government employees’ union leaders who are demanding withdrawal of GOs pertaining to PRC, served strike notice on the government declaring that they would go on strike from February 6 midnight if their demands are not met. A delegation of 20 members of the steering committee in the name PRC Sadhana […]
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Hyderabad: For her courage in dealing with a terrorist attack, 13 year-old Gurugu Himapriya, hailing from Ponnam village of Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh, has been chosen for Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar, 2022. In February 2018, Himapriya’s residence in Sunjuwan Mil Camp, Jammu, was attacked by a terrorist, when her father, who is an Army Jawan, […]
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Visakhapatnam: The three-day Academy of International Business (AIB) South Asia Conference (SAC) began here at the Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam (IIMV), the hosts, in virtual mode on Sunday. Welcoming the attendees during the inauguration, Prof. Deepika Gupta, faculty at IIMV, and conference chair, AIB-SAC, gave an overview of the program and emphasized the importance […]
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Amaravati: Continuing the alarming upward trend, as many as 14,440 new COVID infections were detected during the past 24 hours in Andhra Pradesh. Besides, three deaths were recorded on Saturday–one each in Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, Guntur and Prakasam districts. Visakhapatnam accounted for the highest number of cases on the day at 2,258, Ananatapur 1534, Guntur […]
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In normal times, the play is staged regularly all year round at village and temple fairs, and other social events, across Andhra Pradesh.
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Amaravati: Active cases increased to 73,143 but there was a slight dip in fresh infections as Andhra Pradesh recorded 12,926 new Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours ending 9 am on Saturday, taking the caseload to 21,66,194. The state had reported 13,212 fresh cases on Friday. According to the latest bulletin, there were 3,913 recoveries […]
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Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet which met here on Friday, approved spending Rs.7,880 crore for construction of 16 new medical colleges in the State. The meeting also sanctioned Rs.3,820 crore for developing 11 existing medical colleges. The other Cabinet decisions include providing jobs on compassionate grounds to families of employees who died of COVID, setting […]
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Visakhapatnam: Sankar Foundation achieved yet another distinction of performing surgery on a one-month-old infant, first of its kind in the state. The child’s mother was delivered of the baby in INS Kalyani Hospital and the doctors recognized the problem of her baby not following torch light in left eye. The parents were shocked and the […]
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Visakhapatnam: Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu has called for increasing indigenous production of crude oil through strong research and development efforts to ensure energy security of the country. Delivering the first convocation address of the Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy (IIPE) here on Friday, he urged for ‘Atma Nirbharta’ in the country’s […]
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Tirupati: A woman severed her husband’s head and took it to the police station in Renigunta near here on Thursday. Ravichandran, 53 and Vasundhara live on the Police Lines road. They have a 20-year old son. On Thursday morning, they were involved in a tiff. An enraged Vasudhanra attacked her husband with a knife and […]
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Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Thursday asked the Infrastructure and Investments (I and I) Department to plan and build at least seven new airports in the State under the ‘One District – One Airport” concept. The “One District – One Airport is a good concept,” the Chief Minister said and […]
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Visakhapatnam: Hundreds of teachers stormed the district collectorates on Thursday in protest against the new pay revision commission wages. The protests, in response to a call of the Federation of Andhra Pradesh Teachers’ Organisations (FAPTO), led to tension with the police stopping their surge and taking into custody the leaders apprehending law and order problem. […]
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Amaravati: COVID cases continue to rise alarmingly in Andhra Pradesh, with 12,615 new infections detected after testing 47,420 samples during the last 24 hours in the state. According to a bulletin of the Medical and Health department here on Thursday, three persons in Visakhapatnam, and one each in Chittoor and Nellore districts died due to […]
